“…Cd toxicity negatively affects photosynthesis by reducing chlorophyll content, which adversely influences general plant growth and development by disrupting vital metabolic processes (Kim et al, 2008;Hong et al, 2013;Jan et al, 2015;Khan et al, 2015;Jung et al, 2016Jung et al, , 2017Jung et al, , 2018bFarooq et al, 2018). Recently, some studies have demonstrated that the exogenous application of sulfur (Khan et al, 2015;Jung et al, 2017;Tian et al, 2017), glutathione (Chen et al, 2010;Mostofa et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2017;Jung et al, 2019) or ascorbate (Chen et al, 2017;Jung et al, 2018a;Semida et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2019) may alleviate different heavy metal stresses.…”